How will Reddit react when blackout starts, will it be positive or negative. What do you think? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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[-] ggt@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Or they could just not charge for the API period. Reddit is valued at billions of dollars and has (or at least had) a bunch of investors, so it's very clear they don't need to do this. Not to mention a lot of other people pointed out suggestions in the AMA (not that they listened lol)

[-] Biorix@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

They have investors because they are not profitable, they still need to make money. YouTube is worth a lot of money but it's still not profitable.

They probably thought that could be their profitable business model.

Its not crazy to charge for an API above an amount of request. What's insane is the amount they choose to charge.

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